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2012

Alfresco: Simple Workflow

When I worked on the sales side at Alfresco, one of the easiest things to demo was a simple workflow. It was usually ...

Alfresco: Scheduled Jobs

Note: @tommoz has pointed out to me a blog post that I’d never seen before from @Ixxus which is a complete example of...

Alfresco: Property Decorators

Note: After fighting through some upgrade issues with MySQL…and it still not being 100% fixed…I’m finally at a point ...

2011

2010

Alfresco: Simple File Diff

I’ve heard asked many times by customers and community members if there was a way to diff files in Alfresco and alas ...

Alfresco: Default Quota Policy

Updated: Added new tested versionsFor this post I want to share another policy from recent request from a customer.  ...

Alfresco: Max Version Policy

UPDATE:  Updated code examples to match updates to source codeAs part of a POC for a customer I was asked to write an...

Alfresco: SimpleGIS

Update: Share in Alfresco 4.0 now supports google maps integration out of the box.When I worked Pre-Sales here at [Al...

Alfresco PDF Toolkit

A few weeks ago I made my first release of what I am calling the Alfresco PDF Toolkit on Google Code.Alfresco PDF Too...

2009

Negative File Delete

I am sure there is something metaphysical going on here…but I am not sure what. Negative File Delete

Drs. and Their Computer Books

Update: Removed the now expired video clip from HuluI’ve started watching a new summer show on Fox: Mental.  It is ha...

2008

Recent Alfresco Presentations

Over the past few weeks I have had the chance to do a couple of presentations.  One at UTOSC on Enterprise Document M...

iPhone WordPress App

We just finished upgrading our home server. The migration, while it took time, was rather easy. I combined our separa...

My Boy Jack

I keep meaning to post more on the things I read, listen to and watch.I watched the dramatization of the play My Boy ...

Alfresco Appliance 2.1.2

UPDATE:  I am trying to release a new instance of this sometime in August 09.  The current image is based on Ubuntu &...

World Autism Awareness Day

Today is World Autism Awareness Day, and as the father of an aspie, I’d like to encourage everyone to take a moment t...

First Person Shooter

My sons have fallen in love with PC Gaming.   (They play Wii and XBox, but not with the same obsession as PC based ga...

Stuck in the ATL (Aay-Tee-el)

My flight out of Islip was delayed for weather.  Once we hit the gate in Atlanta, I had two minutes before my connect...

Delta in-flight media center

On a plane, to New York, via Atlanta. On the way in, they were rebooting the in-flight media center. I was happy to s...

System Inefficiencies

I’m going to try to hit on a couple of topics, mostly dealing with system inefficiencies. (I think I understand some ...

2007

Another Design Tool

Saw this at northtemple.com.  Shared the link with the other Alfresco Solutions Engineers.  One of them shared back a...

Geek Family Christmas

In July, Adrienne and I were up in Park City, for a weekend without the kids.  We stopped at a bookstore…yes we like ...

Career Goal

From Rands In Repose: Here is an audacious goal for your resume: to get you to a point in your career where you no l...

What is in a name…

When we started discussing names for Parker we ran through a bunch. We tried to figure out if we could continue on th...

Parker: Day 2

Another good day.  It started a little off, Parker is severely anemic.  They want to avoid a transfusion, because of ...

More Alfresco Training

This is short notice, but we have another Alfresco training class this month.  This will be an excellent class, getti...

Parker: Day 1

It has been a great day for Parker (and Adrienne). Parker was taken off of the CPAP machine this morning. He is breat...

Parker Forrest Ottley

Around Noon today (Sunday, Dec 2) I took Adrienne (34 almost 35 weeks pregnant) to the hospital with abdominal pain.A...

Back Again

We are back at the Hospital. Lots of cramping, pressure and a bit of spotting. She is still at 3cm and about 60% effa...

Skype on a Mobile Phone

At Alfresco we are big users of Skype. Matt has even dropped Vonage to use Skype as part of his primary business phon...

Adrienne Back Home

Adrienne is back home again.  She didn’t have any contractions while being monitored.  The doctor has extended her be...

Adrienne Update

I am in the hospital with Adrienne right now.  She went in for her weekly check-up (Yes…weekly) and now we are here. ...

Happy Birthday Olivia

It has now been three years since you joined our dysfunctional family.  And a happy three years it has been. ...

Coincidences

Moby posts on his blog about the band James….it’s funny that I have been on a James kick for the past week.And this:

Jeos and Initramfs

When installing Ubuntu Jeos in VMWare, you need to change the disk type in VMWare from SCSI to IDE, otherwise, when...

Yeah! The stache is back

You can’t go wrong with a cool stache. My own comes and goes. I love it. My wife hates it. (Thanks to Andrew Sullivan)

Alfresco website up again

Checking this morning, it appears that our sites are up again.  Yeah!  What are horrible weekend for us, our communit...

Alfresco-Facebook Press

The press has been good.  Take a look at what they are saying:Analyst Blog – Kyle McNabb @ Forresters : http://blogs....

Those Chain mail forwards

My Sister-in-law forwarded the following to me a few weeks ago. Typically, they go right in the trash. But I just fel...

Alfresco website and email down

We have been experiencing problems with our registrar and DNS.  It is in the process of being resolved.If you need/wa...

History and Photography

I came across these today.  I am a big fan of history and architecture.  At one point, I thought I wanted to be an ar...

Alfresco in an Hour

Just finished another Alfresco in an Hour.  An hour of me talking non-stop about Alfresco.  I should have had a glass...

Miyamoto Musashi

I have been cleaning out a lot of papers from University. In them I found a couple of quotes from Miyamoto Musashi. I...

Barack Obama

We are entering one of my favorite times of the year. Starting today, the Presidential Campaigns will be moving into ...

Calling all (Open Source) Cars

If you are a multilingual CS, EE, etc. student looking for a way to earn some Open Source street cred, I have a proje...

I bit the bullet

This last week I did something I thought I wouldn’t do. I signed up for a Facebook account. Why? Partly to see what t...

glTail.rb and vhosts

Last week I tried out using glTail.rb against my server and sites.  It worked fine against my default site (www.ottle...

iphoto2gallery

I needed to upload 177 photos into the family photo gallery.  Doing this by hand through the web interface was just n...

Alfresco @ SLLUG

As Marc Christensen noted earlier, I will be presenting Alfresco 2.1 to SLLUG this even at the U.  I will be there a ...

Why oh Why

Update: Long time coming but, after taking her to the emergency room, they told us that she had torn ligaments in her...

New Challenges

This past Friday was my last day at Novell. Monday I will start at Alfresco as a Solutions Engineer.I loved working a...

I hate the smell of vomit

Adrienne goes to work and Olivia pukes. All over the couch, all over the carpet, all over herself. The acrid smell of...

Humor

My friend Jeff, a former co-worker, sent me a link to INDEXED, a blog by Jessica Hagy. She uses charts, graphs and Ve...

Fun with maps

One new, one old.(old) I found newsmap a while ago. It is a visual representation of the Google News Aggregator. Want...

Lead by example

Here is part of the reason why Obama is so appealing. He has a world view that, I believe that even most my conservat...

Is the war lost?

Interesting perspectives on the question: Is the Iraq war lost? Harry Reid may have actually started a useful debate.

Dear Mr. Pundit…

Let’s get this clear, the President’s objection to the war spending bill is of the time line for pulling out of Iraq,...

Camp Williams and Floyd

This past Saturday we dropped Adrienne, Olivia and Sawyer off at her mom’s. One of her sisters is in town to help tak...

Why is this so confusing?

I have been mulling over this video posted by Andrew Sullivan at The Daily Dish. And I have to admit that I am confus...

Things that must go

The morning show I listen to has a weekly segment called “Things that must go.” In it, the hosts, read lists of eithe...

Snore……

I finally got around to listening to the Technometria interview of Bruce Perens. Don’t. It was beyond dull. I am pret...

Quote

There is no reason that pieces of evidence must corroborate one another, and “we can’t say that the absence of evid...

Hatch being dumb again

Why Utahans continue to reelect this man is beyond me. He claims to have been speaking of someone else but had used t...

Easter Comes Early

Easter came early this year. Adrienne’s brother is in town, and will travel back home to Texas on Sunday. This aftern...

TV Commercial Mind Melds

Just read this post by Ken Jennings. We are also suffering under the mind meld of tv commercials. We can’t seem to go...

Seed That Torrent

Recently, a fellow Novell employee pointed out that SLED was the most downloaded software torrent over at btjunkie. H...

Losing a Friend

One of the bad things about moving to a new community is not knowing the laws.When we moved in, we put Molly outside ...

Change in hosting

Because of the move, we had to make a change in our ISP. Our old ISP is not yet to where we are in the subdivision. T...

keep’em organized

I hate wire clutter.  Having worked in IT for almost 8 years now, (6 1/2 professionally and 1 1/2 years while a stude...

an ending, and a beginning

Tonight is Adrienne’s last night working at American Fork Hospital.  She will now be working as a librarian at the Sp...

The value of education

Albert Einstein said It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not enti...

“I’m confused…”

Adrienne and I have just finished watching “Little Miss Sunshine“  (which we thought was a great movie…even though we...

2006

Long Weekend

We took my Mom to the airport this afternoon. She came to help out with Adrienne. (For those who may not know, we had...

98

Spent most of the day working on iSCSI. Trying to put the / device on a storage array over iSCSI. I can start to make...

New Blog, New Post

As you can tell I have updated my blog. New look, new software.  After using MT for so long I decided it was time for...

My first

I made my first submission to an open source project! (Well, I attached the patch to Novell’s bugzilla where I had fi...

Everyday is like Sunday…

Everyday is silent and grey                        –MorrisseyUp late…second week in a row. I need to start setting ...

2005

Living under a cloud

I haven’t blogged for a while….mostly because I am lazy….but also because I have been living under a cloud. But now t...

Bumper Sticker

Saw a bumper sticker yesterday that I liked… You laugh because I am different,I laugh because you are all the same

Somethings must end

After nursing the transmission on my ’96 Saturn for nearly two years, we have decided that it is just not worth the e...

Illness and School

It looks like Olivia is allergic to my parents dog Nikki. Within a couple of minutes into the house, Olivia’s nose tu...

Yeah for Livi!!!

Olivia went in for her check up….14.5 pounds! (UPDATE: Adrienne says, “..nearly 14.5 pounds. A couple ounces short.”)...

First SUSE 10 upgrade

Yesterday, I upgraded my laptop to SUSE 10. So far, so good. I did have to go hunting for rcd and its related accoutr...

Andrew in school

Andrew’s transition into preschool has not been as easy as Taylor’s. (The first day of school Taylor just walked righ...

Upgrades

I had planned to upgrade the servers and my laptop to SUSE 10 this weekend. But with Adrienne unexpectedly heading in...

Star Wars

Within about a week, we, as a family, saw all six Star Wars movies. Taylor had seen at least one of them (I think epi...

Open Carpet Redux

A while back, I posted about Open Carpet and OES. I thought I’d add some more about OES Linux.On OES Linux I have alr...

Trouble in the Superdome

A reporter in the Superdome is reporting that there is water in the Superdome. Some water is making its way through t...

live hurricanne coverage

Link here from wdsu (Local New Orleans station) and jackson,miss. sister station.Watching this is kind of crazy. It h...

Hula and Jabber

I did a lot of thinking last night about a recent post by Dave Camp on the possibility of snorp working on some patch...

The Living Planet

This past Monday we went to the preview exhibit for the new “possible” aquarium in SLC, The Living Planet. It is a ni...

Open Carpet

I have amassed a small collection of RPMs, from various sources, that I use and share with other team members. Instea...

OES at LinuxWorld Boston in 06

If there were any topics that people would be interested in hearing about dealing with Novell Open Enterprise Sever, ...

First Day of School

Today is Adrienne‘s first day back in school. This should prove to be exciting. Chemistry is twice a week and an onli...

Updates

I have a lot of thoughts on different things brewing in my head, but haven’t had much time to put fingers to keyboard...

STS-114 Photos

Dad sent some photos from STS-114. These are some pretty nice shots.      

School Tools

I am pretty excited, Adrienne will be starting on her second Bachelors degree in two weeks at UVSC in Nursing. (Her f...

New Resume

I have finally updated my resume. (Jawaad has been encouraging me to update it and submit it for some positions in Le...

Hula and other thoughts

So, I had a chance to install Hula at home this last week. I was very impressed. I haven’t completed reading all of t...

Dinner with family

So we had my sisters over, with their families, for dinner last night. It was a pretty nice little BBQ. Sat around ta...

Long night — long week

Last night was pretty long….and gross. The kids have all been getting some 24 hour bug. Last night was Taylor’s turn....

Supreme Court

I was so hoping that CNN was going to be right. Edith Brown Clement is one of the few Judges on the short list with w...

Earn What You’re Worth

On the way home from work the other day, I saw a car advertising the drivers business on it. It started out “Earn Wha...

Space Shuttle Fleet

The boys and I spent some time this past Wednesday, putting together the space shuttle gliders that we got from my Mo...

Long Weekend

We took off Thursday afternoon for Colorado to see my parents. The trip over was fairly easy. We took Molly with us. ...

Rose thief

As we were getting into the van to search for the fuse for the A/C, I asked Adrienne if she had meant to trim back ...

Hotter than…

I got home yesterday from work, stepped into the house and realized that it was hotter inside than out. (And it was h...

Hiking the Y

On Saturday, we attempted to hike to the ‘Y’ with the boys. {Short history here.} We made it just about three-quarte...

30 days

I have never seen Super Size Me (it is now in my Blockbuster queue), but I have to say that I am already a huge fan o...

Tristan is off

Yesterday, we went with my Mother and Brother in-laws to the MTC. I didn’t get to see much of what happened in the or...

The World is Flat

Dad: Here is a link to a video of the author discussing his book at MIT. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/266/. Oh, and ...

The Jacko Verdict

You’d swear, based on the reaction of some of the people in the office, that the world was coming to an end. That onc...

Molly’s back

So I dropped off Molly (the dog) at the vets yesterday. Last round of shots for a year, and the inevitable spay. Adri...

Back home

Glad to be back home. It was nice to see the in-laws, but better to be home. But it is not like I am going to get a c...

Mississippi Gulf Coast

Now, I know that it has been raining for several days, but the beach on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is just gross. Tra...

Madagascar

Went to see Madagascar with the boys tonight. The animation was incredible (all done on Linux!). The movie over all w...

House of Flying Daggers

Last night I watched bits and pieces of the movie House of Flying Daggers. It was an incredibly beautiful movie. The ...

Welcome to Moe’s!

We went to Moe’s for lunch today. They were really busy and short-staffed. But they were still very cordial. Adrienne...

Now it’s a vacation

No vacation is real for us until we take a kid to the emergemcy room. Olivia went in to the ER last night. She had be...

Stem Cell research

I am at the “fringe” politically as a Mormon. And I am not sure what the stand is on embryonic stem cell research. Bu...

Broken Glass

When I got home last night the boys where in full spazz out mode. I took them outside for a bit and we walked the dog...

The Weekend…

So the weekend was nice. Did a lot (well not really, it just seemed like it) of yard work, went to Jawaad’s for dinne...

Kids

TaylorTaylor has turned into a Star Wars fan. He watched episode two on tv last night and loved every minute of it. H...

School is Out!

Today was Taylor’s last day of school. Summer break is on and Adrienne has his schedule jam packed with activities. S...

Rock Slide in Rock Canyon

Jack, one of the guys I work with, rode his bike over to Rock Canyon at lunch one day to see the damage caused by the...

A shout out

Happy 30th Birthday Amanda! [Amanda and Olivia]

Morning Conversation

After Taylor finished breakfast this morning, he started to flip through the current of issue of SmallTimes, a magazi...

Books

Jawaad lent me John Grisham’s The Broker. It has been a pretty good read so far. It is like most of his books, a good...

Another day…

So I finally finished the deck on Saturday. It is nice to have at least one of the many projects we have planned fini...

Utah makes me laugh

On Saturday, April 2nd, President Gordon B. Hinkley, (President and Prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-d...

A Picnic Lunch

Adrienne called and asked if I wanted to go with them on a picnic after she picked up Taylor from school. We spent ab...

Illness update

Spent the morning at the doctor’s office. 4 kids, 8 ears, 7 infections. Add on top of that, Asthma. Andrew, Cameron a...

Novell Open Enterprise Server

It is official! Open Enterprise Server is shipping. All that NetWare goodness on Linux. Think of the possibilities. R...

What a day

Spent the day at home. Adrienne is sick, and so are the boys (I need to get use to adding Olivia in to this group too...

iFolder

I love iFolder! I have instant access to all the files that I use on a regular basis, anywhere, anytime. I regularly ...

Taylor, can you say smart?

Yesterday, Taylor and the boys were watching Barney (I know, I know). And in the show they start to sing ‘Twinkle, Tw...

So I am back

I have missed about a week worth of fun stuff happening at the Ottleys’. So I will try to remember what has happened....

It was a good day

We had a nice get-together with family last night. We all went out to eat at Tucanos. The food is so good. Then we we...

What the boys are saying

Kids can sometimes suprise you with what they remember from what they have learned or heard from you and others (TV, ...

The Weekend

I was supposed to work this weekend. I brought Andrew and Cameron to work with me on Saturday. We left around 10. Not...

So…

Adrienne has taken over the duty of correcting my spelling and grammar. She kept complaining about it and I kept not ...

RSS

After reading this article about weblogs, I am kind of torn on the issue of rss. I find that it is extremely useful. ...

It was a long weekend

Spent most of the day on Saturday cleaning out the basement. Needed to make more room to start working on finishing t...

From CNN…

Now this is sad. Once again evidence that schools and parents just aren’t doing enough to teach kids. It may be that ...

Music

At work yesterday, I came across a song in my collection from a band called Signor Ros. I didn’t know anything about ...